Jest

Famous quotes containing the word jest:

“These ice-cutters are a merry race, full of jest and sport, and when I went among them they were wont to invite me to saw pit-fashion with them, I standing underneath.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Maria. Not a word with him but a jest.
Boyet. And every jest but a word.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)